Launchpad itself

Common link for virtual package providers

Bug #576478 reported by Scott Kitterman
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

Many binary packages such as https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/postfix/2.7.0-1 provide a virtual package that is provided by multiple binaries. Currently if you click on the link to the provided package (in this case https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/mail-transport-agent ) it leads to a very empty page with negligible utility.

It would be nice if pages like that would have a list of all the binaries that provide the virtual package in the appropriate context (ubuntu/lucid/i386 in this case).

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug. I discovered this last week and I neglects to do this.

affects: launchpad → launchpad-registry
Changed in launchpad-registry:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
milestone: none → series-future
Revision history for this message
Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

I think the solution is to add PackagingType.VIRTUAL, and unhide the feature that allows projects to specify the PackagingType. This was never permitted on source packages, only project. I removed it because the users who work from the project perspective do not understand packaging very well. I think the feature properly belongs from the package perspective.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
milestone: series-future → none
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: packages
tags: added: package-link
removed: packages
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